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[opensuse-factory] Get 10.2 booting again piece of cake.
by M9. 25 May '07

25 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To get the entries back in grub from 10.3 is a piece of cake. I just copied the original entries from 10.2 menu-list, (after mounting the partition as /suse10.2), and paste them unaltered into the menu-list from 10.3, and as a reader that pays attention can see, it indeed worked. ;-) And here the music works :-)) These little things please me.. ;-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVs+rX5/X5X6LpDgRAqRJAKDATsxMlrcIk9chvR9uSlkuEtl4ggCdHmFV 1I9/Nc/SjkqGDbvLmO/n0QE= =F8Ji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Rootmodus from KDE-Configmodule impossible.
by M9. 25 May '07

25 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is impossible to get the rootmodule started from KDE-Configmanager. bug #277292 - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.21-8-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) Alpha4 KDE: 3.5.6 "release 42" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVsqHX5/X5X6LpDgRAvrjAKCK4IjQO5vYBDfn0jDPZVNioUPTPgCg2ULd MCinNV34g3PDqnW2rf8V4ds= =IpES -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Findings about 10.3Alpha4...
by M9. 25 May '07

25 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I do not know if it is important, or some developer can do anything with these words, or maybe even do not read them at all.. Comparing a full system with an Alpha, might not be correct, but i want to write down what i notice anyway ;-) Release notes in 10.2 tell about having more OS on one pc, and how to adapt grub. (it does not work, when 10.2 is installed after 10.3) All entries are there, but 10.3 does not boot. I got it partialy booted up, but the partitions where not integer, so i gave up. (might be not wise to install alpha's with many partitions.) When installing 10.3 after 10.2, the 10.2 entry dissappears ( i did not try to get the entry back, i just finished to re-install 10.3Alpha4.) Parsing the meta-data has been improved remarkable! My compliments ;-) The use of Yast feels more smooth in common. (why the OK button in the middle of the screen, to push at the end of an install?) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We allready know the everlasting dissapointment with the music: *No* music, which is so f***ing boaring, and also the ways to get support from earlier versions are cut off fully, by unsolvable deps, hopefully this is only because of the 'alpha' stage of things.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- KDE4 Cardgames are horrible, i hope this is an alpha version also... Nice that the cards resize when resizing the window, but the graphics are very ugly, compared with the ones we are used to. Installing is smooth, timing is correct now. I like the built-in 3D aktivation option, sax2 testing a changed config works, when just adapting the screensize from the pulldownmenu, does not change the actual size, it has to be adapted again on the desktop. Overall feeling is that the os is faster. Ram usage booted up system: 512MB, and slightly climbing...during installing: 1074MB The floppydrive light stays on, even there is no disk in the drive. The firewall still does not open lan without moving the network adapter to the internal zone, but i have not noticed any unwanted traffic, since i did this in 10.2 a few months ago. I do not like the way my ide-drives are shown as scsi-sata drives, and the unnessesary text in /etc/fstab i dislike very much. Not only that, but the backwards incompatability causes a lot of trouble, as seen daily in the mailinglist. Apart from these little things, i like it. ;-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.21-8-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) Alpha4 KDE: 3.5.6 "release 42" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVsHxX5/X5X6LpDgRAvvPAKC2orSlHgwvgnf3VooyXwKYMi4UmQCdEEUJ yHtBjVL77fU2JnU4+bFQvaA= =L48s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] php5-pear-db-1.7.6-75 in 10.3a4
by Andreas Klein 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi, php5-pear-db-1.7.6-75 is in 10.3a4. The website of this project (http://pear.php.net/package/DB) says: This package has been superseded, but is still maintained for bugs and security fixes. Use MDB2 instead. (http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2) Is there a reason, why the new version is not in the current release, or has it simply nobody has noticed that. Bye, -- Andreas Klein Andreas.C.Klein(a)physik.uni-wuerzburg.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Fixing the machine after kernel 2.6.21-10
by Silviu Marin-Caea 25 May '07

25 May '07

I have updated my installation with this kernel from factory and it didn't boot anymore (it didn't see the hard-disk). The problem that I'm most concerned about is not this. What is much more serious is that I haven't been able to fix it to boot again. Perhaps I didn't do the right things. I'm gonna describe what I've tried, and if there's something more that could be done, please tell me. 1. Update the kernel 2.6.21-8 to 2.6.21-10, along with a good number of other packages (including hal) 2. Reboot, see that it doesn't work (it doesn't see the storage) 3. Look if the old kernel is still on disk. It isn't. Perhaps it should do a backup called vmlinuz-backup that gets overwritten at each update, so the directory doesn't become full of backups. 4. Decided to install back the old kernel with rpm --upgrade --force 5. boot the alpha4 DVD in rescue mode 6. mkdir /tmp/local mount /dev/sda4 /tmp/local cp [...]/kernel-2.6.21-10[...].rpm /tmp/local chroot /tmp/local rpm --upgrade --force kernel-2.6.21-8[...].rpm At which point I got a lot of errors, probably from the mkinitrd script that didn't see the hard-disk, because the device it's created dynamically at runtime, if I'm correct. 7. I have corrected grub/menu.lst by editing it and tried booting, but it gave the same error (not seeing the disk), probably because the initrd image is invalid. I ended up doing a fresh reinstall. This is not good. Someone with enough knowledge should be able to fix this situation without reinstallation. So either I don't have sufficient knowledge (easily fixable and not a distribution problem) or it can't be done--quite bad. Which one is it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Grub-entries, partitioning differences between 10.2 > 10.3.
by M9. 25 May '07

25 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I must say that it is very difficult to handle, because when an entry in grub does not work, because 10.2 reads different as 10.3, it is impossible to mount a 10.3 ext2 /boot partition, in the 10.2 partitioner. This way the working entry can not be copied, and placed into the grub. (and i do not know it from my head) So i have an unusable 10.3 sitting there.. does someone know a hack to mount this partition anyway? - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVItAX5/X5X6LpDgRAp0iAKC0vVDx9EuKAx41AlN3oImGe+kxOACgoUwk 4zq6uKGBQtbkNQNo9QYyxqA= =rfi9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Multimedia and Media Center patterns and optimizing
by Terje J. Hanssen 24 May '07

24 May '07

No much response so far about this. Isn't here interest and a chance to get the new patterns for Media Center and A/V multimedia applications in 10.3, to provide an alternative to typical the upcoming Windows Home Server and Ubuntu Studio? Terje J. Hanssen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Multimedia and Media Center patterns and optimizing
by Terje J. Hanssen 24 May '07

24 May '07

>From a users point of view, I'll suggest and request a couple of new software patterns for 10.3 with the possibly required optimizing and setup: 1) Multimedia (Desktop functions) 2) Media Center (Server functions) Reasons: To setup working environments for Audio and Video editing, DVD authoring or Media Center in Linux are not assumed to be trivial user tasks. For comparision, the "Ubuntu Studio" was just released a couple of days ago. As far as I've seen from user discussions about it, Ubuntu Studio contains these extra packages and a optimized kernel for "low latency" recording og midi and supports Jack audio: Audio: Ardour2, Jack Graphic: Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Hugin, Scribus Video: Cinepaint, Kino, PiTiVi Jokosher, Gnonlin library openSUSE 10.2: All of the above packages are already available either for openSUSE 10.2 directly or from Hugin http://repos.opensuse.org/multimedia:/photo/openSUSE_10.2/ Cinepaint http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/bekun/openSUSE_10.2/ several from http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/10.2/ 1) Multimedia In addition to the above A/V solutions, I'll suggest to add: Video: + Cinelerra (HDV editing, packman) + DVD/HDVD/BD Autoring tools (from list *) + DVD/HDVD/BD Burning tools (from list *) *) This is a comprehensiv list to select from http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=32956 2) Media Center LinuxMCE LinuxMCE is often called a platform for developing smart home modules constructed by a variety of open source projects. The integration of these open source projects, such as Xine, Mythtv, and Asterisk, can be found in the LinuxMCE Software Documentation. http://www.linuxmce.com/ http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Main_Page Maybe more or other packages? Terje J. Hansse --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Alpha 4 DOS Partition ?
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hello, I can't install Alpha 4 on a System with a small (500MB) DOS Partition on /dev/sda1 ? The new installer like to resize the Partition. When I go to manual partitioning I have only EVMS Drives, after reformat the DOS partition to a swap Partition I can install Alpha 4 and I found all my partition in YaST2 Partitioning ? Is this a known Problem ? -- mit freundlichen Grüssen / best Regards Günther J. Niederwimmer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...
by M9. 23 May '07

23 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and start all over again. And in the low ram case, one is not even capable to reach the partioner, which is off course not very sane.. More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, without having to delete /home. It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed. I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to save.. I hope it is not too late for 10.3 final, to change this, but this hope might be in vane... I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUbnlX5/X5X6LpDgRApsrAJ9IerW8gwgNLHAiAWKi2qIRTET93ACg3hcN 51tNTkRPhvZABmIE5+9yzbM= =G5+3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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